So several years before the term Internet was coined for a network of interconnected computer networks in the mid 70s. Several years earlier a small company in Beckenham Kent sold cheapo Hong Kong made pocket radios. They called themselves Internet. Here is one I bought today with box.

Magnifying lid on with internal sound. Not a lot to squish inside, although it's pretty crammed in there already. Maybe get away with fixed gain and bias if I can find a good setting that works with most stuff. And replace the earphone with an AV in.

Uber just notified me that the prices of rides to my airport are the lowest in month. I guess, I will go to the airport today then.

I also engage sometimes in pointless excercises 🤭

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware share.google/pkn5SZrvWqUp...

Yes, I’m a 'soy-boy' - I make soy milk every week for my yogurt. My milk maker beeps so faintly at the end of its cycle that I frequently forget it's done. ​Enter the Soy Milk Ready SMS Notifier: an ESP32-based listener that makes sure I never miss a batch. #esp32 #vegan

In dry winter air everything prints perfectly on my 3d printer. So, was the humidity the source of all the troubles?

Flashback to the summer of 2018. On the chain of a hanging flower basket sits the only insect capable of turning its head. ​It is looking at me.

I feel like Odysseus hearing the enchanting songs of the Sirens. Tie me to the mast now!

The text reader pronounces ESP32 as 'Thirty-two Spanish Pesetas.' 🙄 I noticed this 6 months ago; have they really not fixed it? Is it actually rarer to discuss microcontrollers than old Spanish money?

What was I thinking taking up on assembling this board. 6 caps and 16 resistors soldered. 256 LEDs to go...

Individually addressable LEDs.... so cute! They look like regular LEDs except... they have 4 pins: +5V, GND, Data In, Data Out. 5 and 8 mm LEDs

I used to be a developer. Now, at best, I manage a LLM chat... youtu.be/fyHnGHxGuhI?...

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

Today's thrift store find: Melcor 400 harking back to mid 1970s. It is surprising to see buttons dedicated to square root while many other calculators did not have such functionality. The interesting part is that the calculator goes into a 'power saving' mode by blanking display except one segment.

Perlin noise on custom 14-segment display matrix #maker #arduino #electronics

Shiura saved a broken 1973 Casio calculator by turning its retro VFD screen into a Wi-Fi-connected clock using an ESP32.

While I understand why I should provie Alt Text to images, it is a Royal Pain in Butt. Luckily Gemini can help with this!

Random picture from 2014. More than 10 years ago already?

Cool wire spools https://hackaday.com/2026/01/02/print-your-own-standardized-wire-spool-storage/

This is nuts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUH...

'Raspberry Pip' in my Electronics feed 😁

Started a new batch of vegan cashew roquefort. This time mushroom flavored. Here is what is expected in couple of weeks...

My wife said "poor baby...".

The Köln Concert - Wikipedia share.google/BlSw4r5c4x6A...

Another thrift store find: Elsmate EL-8151 calculator from 1970. The calculator sports VFD display and a printer. However, this is not a thermal printer but rather spark printer. The spark printer uses a conductive paper and electric current to burn away dots of the printout. #VFDCalculator

My wife said "ouch!"

I need unChristmas radio station. Ideas?

Sedan... Sedan-chair.jpg (489×380) share.google/kxQfECtvZP9b...

All the signs of life found on Asteroid youtube.com/shorts/stbcn...

Nixies! Some awesome calculator action here! This is the Sanyo caluclator, with the rightmost digit still bleeding into the leftmost during rollover, because there is a flaky short in it somewhere. #TWAAC

Today's thrift store find: Rockwell 24 RD. The calculator was manufactured around fifty years ago, ca. 1975 and has one interesting design quirk. Can you tell that this is negative number? #vfd #vintagecalculator

The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji. nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…

My entire Electronics feed today is dominated by Bolsonaro and his attempt to open ankle monitor with a soldering iron 🤭.

If you feel an overpowering urge to do something, sit down, drink a glass of water, and wait until it passes.

Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad

Whe life breaks your lemons, make some closeups! So much for joy from desoldering IV-17 VFD character tube form botched PCB... that it rolled off my desk.

The scale of the blue origin rocket isnt clear from most of the videos

I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...

Today's thrift shop find: Commodore Minuteman 3 ca. 1973. How tiny this thing is! (see AAA batteries) Finally term "minuteman" has a different meaning from ICBM. "A 'minuteman' (hist) refers to a member of a colonial militia who was ready to fight at a minute's notice, especially during the Am Rev"

The most annoying thing about listening to the traditional radio stations is that I cant rewind.

Now, this is archeology!

Krompelka surprised that the batch job is finished.

Fake Geiger counter but it looks convincing with my coffee cup! Can you see the sensor?

Whenever I see Cybertruck on a road, it feels like there is some Universe crack opening. While I understand a need for a disruption, this thing seems to be made for individuals who say "fcuk you all" to everyone else.

In my damn Electronics feed I started seeing posts about cricket. It turns out that this is because of an acronym PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) 🤣.